f Mrs. Mary Hicks and her Daughter Elizabeth, But of Nine
Years of Age, who were Condemn'd the last Assizes held at Huntingdon
for Witchcraft, and there Executed on Saturday, the 28th of July 1716
... the like never heard before; their Behaviour with several Divines
who came to converse with 'em whilst under their sentence of Death; and
last Dying Speeches and Confession at the place of execution_, London,
1716. There is a copy in the Bodleian Library.

The two Northamptonshire pamphlets and the Huntingdonshire pamphlet have
been set by themselves because they appear to have been written by one
hand. Moreover, it looks very much as if they were downright
fabrications foisted upon the public by a man who had already in 1700
made to order an unhistorical pamphlet. To show this, it will be
necessary to review briefly the facts about the Worcester pamphlet
described above, Sec. 4. What seems to be the second edition of a pamphlet
entitled _The full Tryalls, Examinations and Condemnations of Four
Notorious Witches, At the Assizes held at Worcester on Tuseday the 4th
of March_, was published at London with the date 1700. It purports to
tell the story of one of the cases that came up during Matthew Hopkins's
career in 1645-1647. It has been universally accepted--even by Thomas
Wright, Ashton, W. H. D. Adams, and Inderwick. An examination shows,
however, that it was made over from the Chelmsford pamphlet of 1645. The
author shows little ingenuity, for he steals not only the confessions of
four witches at that trial, but their names as well. Rebecca West,
Margaret Landis, Susan Cock, and Rose Hallybread had all been hanged at
Chelmsford and could hardly have been rehanged at Worcester. Practically
all that the writer of the Worcester pamphlet did was to touch over the
confessions and add thrilling details about their executions.

Now, it looks very much as if the same writer had composed the
Northamptonshire pamphlets of 1705 and the Huntingdonshire pamphlets of
1716. The verbal resemblances are nothing less than remarkable. The
Worcester pamphlet, in its title, tells of "their Confessions and Last
Dying Speeches at the place of execution." The second of the two
Northamptonshire pamphlets (the first was issued before the execution)
speaks of "their full Confession to the Minister, and last Dying
Speeches at the place of Execution." The Huntingdonshire pamphlet closes
the title with "last Dying Speeches and Confession at the plac